all jira tickets regarding it has also been closed without a (real) response

they have been breaking the GDPR for years but it seems nobody cares. data mining is still an opt-out setting

for me it doesn’t work in telegram and notepad++, but does in word. this seems to be a program-specific feature though, not an os-specific one

I thought that’s a firefox exclusive feature. in which other programs did you see it work?

afaik USB can be used for serial, car diag programs often work like that too, so this might not be the problem

3 GB swap usage is usually very unpleasant in my experience when the swap is on a HDD. and no thabks, I won’t move the swap to the SSD to kill it earlier

19 GB cache is worthless after you have just moved a lot of files, large in total size. very few useful things remain in there, while your program will get swapped out unnecessarily

through a kernel parameter, or permanently through sysctl

and then I guess it can even be trimmed somewhat. delete the development packages, look through and filter the unneeded larger ones, …

my PC constantly awakening from standby

why do you think that’s caused by plasma? I don’t think it would intentionally wake itself up. Did you check the same kernel version with gnome?

Which which one?

netfilter, iptables, or one that is based on them

Firewalld isn’t a GUI

that’s right, but it has an official GUI: https://firewalld.org/documentation/utilities/firewall-config.html

I haven’t tried opensnitch.

it has per-app rules, and can show a popup for programs that don’t yet have a rule. you can also limit the access by time, destination, and port

DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.

in my experience every kind of update requires planning and a reboot because incompatibilities between new libs and already running older programs will cause problems. but DKMS may help in making it less of a work

hmm. I have to admit I don’t understand the difference. on windows it’s the desktop folder, plus a few separate icons to system utilities with some way to filter them. did you mean that?

requirement of the root password? why would it need that, when it normally doesn’t? to clarify, I didn’t mean the “sudo reboot” command, but the reboot button in the KDE application launcher

what parts of it do you miss exactly?

can’t you change the compression algorithm, or its compression level?

but yeah it would be much better if we could set it on a per-file basis, and also on demand so that it can compress/decompress a file in place

any of them could make it work through FUSE

Gui to manage firewall.

which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?

Desktop icons.

you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?

Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.

manually, or even automatically? if it’s the first, check out DKMS

I think most of us are grateful that we don’t have that spyware

What was that, punk??

AMATEURS!

2532, 19.7 TB

but that’s where it becomes more serious: when basic functions of the system fail, silently. when you can’t even reboot without a terminal, because the reboot dialog crashes

Usually you would only need to reboot if you want to use the new kernel right away after an update.

and the new version of all the software that is still running with the old version.

For most of the programs, you don’t even need to restart them if they’re already running.

how? won’t they keep being the old version?

However, if you restart them they will run as the newer updated version.

oh, yeah, we agree on that. but my point is that in my experience, a lot of software gets very confused if some libs it would use or resource files have changed after they were started. often that’s also the reason why holding back a package’s version makes trouble over time (because certain other packages can’t be updated either), or same with using custom repos that have a different release schedule or maybe are not even in sync with your distro